The exponential growth in nanotechnology has led to vast amounts of information and data being dispersed throughout various journals and patents making the acquisition of this information difficult. Furthermore, the lack of standardized nomenclature for nanomaterials is a huge challenge which makes seeking and transfer of scientific results a difficult task for researchers. There exists, however, a great demand for quick and curated information on nanomaterials, properties and applications. nano.nature.com known as Nano was launched on 15 June 2016 as a non-journal type product under the Nature Research portfolio. It aims to provide highly indexed and structured information related to nanotechnology, including materials, properties, applications and preparation methods, derived from peer-reviewed journals at the article level and in manually curated nanomaterial summaries that compile data from multiple sources.

This talk will illustrate how Nano can aid nanotechnology research communities to obtain fast and precise insights into the wealth of nanotechnology based scholarly knowledge via use case scenarios and provide the latest developments.